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LAPD Protesters Plead Not Guilty

A man (R) watches as police put out a fire lit by protesters outside his place of work as supporters of dead Guatemalan immigrant Manuel Jamines continue to demonstrate for a third night in Los Angeles on September 8, 2010. (AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON/Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES (AP) —Two Los Angeles men have pleaded not guilty
to illegally setting a fire during a violent protest over the
police shooting of a knife-wielding man.

If convicted, they could each face up to
180 days in Los Angeles County jail and a $1,000 fine.
Both men have been released from jail and authorities did not
immediately know whether they have obtained lawyers.

Prosecutors claim the pair lit a bonfire and threw wood on the
blaze Monday night in the first protest of the shooting of
37-year-old Manuel Jamines on Sunday.